By Tim Hadac
Managing Editor
Southwest Chicago Post
Managing Editor
Southwest Chicago Post
If you agree that exposing children to the performing arts is important--and you want that for your child (ages 4-9)--then please register for Through the Art to the Heart, a presentation set for 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 22 on the lower level of the Bedford Park Public Library, 7816 W. 65th Place.
The hourlong event will feature a performance by students of the acclaimed Madam Elizabeth Boitsov, founder and owner of the Boitsov Classical Ballet School & Company.
There is no admission charge, but registration is required. For details, contact program coordinator Bridget Ormins at (708) 458-6826 or bormins@bedfordparklibrary.com.
Background
Madame Elizabeth Boitsov was born in the old Soviet Union and started practicing ballet at age 4.
As a young adult in the 1970s, she left home to teach ballet in Poland and later Sweden, before coming to the U.S. and eventually setting up shop in Chicago in early 1980.
With her husband, Vladimir, she founded her school in the South Loop, along with a ballet company. Both thrived and drew critical acclaim until Vladimir died from lung cancer in 2000.
The company shut down, but Madame Boitsov maintained the school.
In 2013, she closed its downtown location and relocated to the Midway area—a move she called “a dream” she and her husband shared, to make classical ballet more accessible to communities not normally exposed to it. Today, she lives in Garfield Ridge.
The school teaches the Vaganova Technique of Russian classical ballet. “This technique is practiced around the world,” according to a statement on the Boitsov website. “It is the highest standard by which a professional ballet dancer is trained.”
The school accepts girls and boys as young as age 4 and teaches them all the way to adulthood.
Here are a few Southwest Chicago Post photos of a Boitsov School ballet presentation held a few months ago at the Clearing Branch Library, taken by photographer Kelly White.
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